A Winkler Model for the Seismic Analysis of Monopile Foundations: An Exploratory Study on the Modelling of Soil-Structure Interaction during Earthquakes

The growing interest in the development of offshore wind farms in seismic active areas demands a better insight into the requirements earthquakes impose on the design of wind turbine foundations. The complexity of the soil-structure interaction (SSI) during an earthquake results in large uncertainties in the design process of a monopile...

Modelling and observing the 8.8 Chile and 9.0 Japan earthquakes using GOCE

Large earthquakes do not only heavily deform the crust in the vicinity of the fault, they also change the gravity field of the area affected by the earthquake due to mass redistribution in the upper layers of the Earth. Besides that, for sub-oceanic earthquakes deformation of the ocean floor causes relative sea-level changes and mass...